- United States marshals, Fiction, Psychiatric hospital patients, Brainwashing
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
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Grave, intimate, bleak and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Dennis Lehane
- First published
- April 15, 2003
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Transworld Pub, Harper, Piemme
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- dan, Portuguese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9789044309911
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“TEDDY DANIELS'S FATHER had been a fisherman.”
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including *A Drink Before the War*. Four of his novels were adapted into award-wining films of the same names: *Mystic River* (2003), *Shutter Island* (2010), and *Gone Baby Gone* (2007) and *Live by Night* (2016). [*--Wikipedia*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lehane)
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